Look for Don Toliver to score his first Best Rap Album nomination, and strong showings by J. Cole, Cardi B, A$AP Rocky ...

How a rap battle at a party led to The Game meeting Kanye West and eventually making one of the best West Coast rap songs of ...

Dr. A.D. Carson, the professor who defended a rap album as his Ph.D. dissertation, is redefining Hip-Hop as both scholarship and culture. Bars and Books! Add as a preferred source on Google Hip-Hop ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Javier Hasse is a cannabis and psychedelics reporter and book author. Tens of millions of social media followers. Thousands of ...

When Hip Hop meets pop, the result is often pure magic. Some of the most memorable moments in music come from when a rap verse jumps into a pop track, adding a fresh layer of attitude, energy, and ...

LACK wants to make a full rap album soon COMPLEX is a community of creators and curators, armed with the Internet, committed ...

When police arrested Nevada rapper Kenjuan McDaniel on a murder charge in August 2023, they cited a music video he posted on YouTube that they say includes details of a 2021 killing that had not been ...

Just one rap hit has won record of the year – Childish Gambino's "This Is America." Will Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" become the second? Place your bets. By Paul Grein Kendrick Lamar was just three ...

Let’s dive into Hip Hop’s most introspective subgenre. In Hip Hop, conscious rap is a subgenre that stands out as a powerful force for change and introspection. Beyond the glitz and glamor of ...

While teaching a course at MIT last spring, rap luminary and Renaissance man Lupe Fiasco refined his unifying theory of the musical genre. Lupe Fiasco is a multiplatinum rap legend who typically ...

A feature can make or break a rap song. Sure, a rapper can do his own thing but sometimes, a guest verse or a hook can allow the song to reach new limits. Think Juelz Santana on “Welcome to New York ...

They say it began in the Bronx. It was August 11, 1973, and 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc, short for Hercules, hosted a party in the rec room of his apartment building. Herc was a pioneer in a new form of ...